Organized workers replaced petition delegations with autonomous demonstrations.

Evidence

Working-class organizations mounted far more than strikes. They lay behind a great many of the meetings, demonstrations, and petitions. Petition delegations soon disappeared as ways of making public claims, in favor of autonomously organized meetings and, especially, demonstrations. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1209

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1209
  • XREF: connects to: Demonstrations and national general strikes replaced turnouts in Belgian contention. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1206; Changes in demonstration form reflect deeper shifts in social movement politics — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1231; Worker-selected factory commissars replaced union-picked appointees in Turin’s councils — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1675 (+4 more)

Broader Connections